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For some football fans, particularly those in Argentina, Diego Maradona is the greatest (1) football of all time.
Maradona was born in 1960 in a poor area of the (2) Argentin capital, Buenos Aries, and started playing football in the street as a (3) smaller boy. By the age of twelve he was working as a ball boy at the (4) stadio of Argentinos Juniors, one of the Buenos Aires teams, entertaining the (5)croud with his ball-juggling during half time.
He played his first game for the Argentinos Juniors first team just before his sixteenth birthday and stayed with the club (6) until 1981, when he joined a (7) famouser Buenos Aires team, Boca Juniors. By this time, though still only twenty-one, he was already (8) most important player in the Argentina national team. In 1982 he moved to Europe, played in Barcelona for two years and then went to Italy to (9) jone Napoli. He soon became a hero with the Napoli fans and was the main reason the team became (10) nation champions in 1987 and 1990.
It was as (11) captane of Argentina during the 1986 World Cup finals in Mexico, however, that the most famous moments in Maradona’s career took place. Argentina won the competition and Maradona played (12) brilliantly in most of their games. In the quarter-final against England, which Argentina (13) win 2-1, Maradona scored a goal by punching the ball into the goal (players cannot (14) uses their hands in football, of course, but somehow the (15) referee didn’t see it). Then, less than five minutes later, he ran with the ball for sixty metres, past five England players, to (16) sore what many people think is one of the best goals in the history of football. English fans said the first goal made Maradona a (17) cheet, but most of them agreed the second showed he was also a genius.
After Maradona stopped (18) play in 1997 he had lots of health (19) problem. There were times when he was very (20) overweight, and in 2004 he had a (21) hart attack and almost died. Since then, however, life for Maradona has improved. In 2005 he became the host of a (22) chatter show on Argentinian TV called ‘The Night of 10’, because that was the number of the shirt he always (23) war as a player, and in October 2008, he (24) becomes the coach of the Argentina national team. History (25) shows that great players do not always make great coaches, but the football world is watching to see how he does.